Are you thinking about leaving SP but are willing to leave behind your pages so others may continue to use them?

First, do you really have to delete your account? Why not just become inactive? There may come a time when you decide you want to resume activity here. In the meantime, if any of your pages need updating, others can adopt them. Deleting your pages could also have organizational effects; for example, deleted areas and mountains could leave orphaned, and in some cases useless, mountains and routes, respectively.

If you keep your account but become inactive and someone adopts one of your pages, your photos will still be yours; ownership of them will not transfer to the new maintainer.

"Orphanage" is now owner of the existing "Pages up for Adoption" List, so pages attached to that list also show up on the "objects attached to my pages" section of Orphanage's profile. Objects owned by Orphanage won't automatically be children of the list, but I can provide a link on the list page that will show those objects when you click the link.

Bob Sihler wrote:Also, please remove yourself from any editing privileges at all, or the page will still disappear when your account does.

Bob,

Does this mean that if I am sharing a page with someone - one of us as owner and the other as administrator - and they delete their membership, the page will be gone even if my membership stays?

Fred, as long as there is at least an admin - and I think even if there is only somebody with edit rights (not sure though) - the page stays when the user is deleted with the elves' deletion tool. Bob is right of course - if an owner deletes the page manually it doesn't help if there is an admin.

mrchad9 wrote:That isn't what we were talking about at all. I was saying if a user's account is deleted, that I would expect it would only affect pages for which they are the owner.

Was not commenting on whether an admin user could delete the page should they choose to.

Oops, yes, of course.But there seems to be specific deletion treatments. Some accounts are deleted and the forum posts are not deleted, and some accounts are deleted and the forum posts are deleted as well.

True. I think that is setting the elves can control. Not sure. If the forum post is the opening post, I believe the entire thread is deleted, and it appears that if the post is the last in a thread, it is deleted. Other posts generally remain unless the elves decide to delete them too, from what I can tell.

mrchad9 wrote:That isn't what we were talking about at all. I was saying if a user's account is deleted, that I would expect it would only affect pages for which they are the owner.

Was not commenting on whether an admin user could delete the page should they choose to.

Oops, yes, of course.But there seems to be specific deletion treatments. Some accounts are deleted and the forum posts are not deleted, and some accounts are deleted and the forum posts are deleted as well.

True. I think that is setting the elves can control. Not sure. If the forum post is the opening post, I believe the entire thread is deleted, and it appears that if the post is the last in a thread, it is deleted. Other posts generally remain unless the elves decide to delete them too, from what I can tell.

The other day, I discovered the feature that I think allows you to control whether or not posts are deleted when a user is deleted.

Anyone wanna volunteer to be the guinea pig?

"Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off."

Bob Sihler wrote:Also, please remove yourself from any editing privileges at all, or the page will still disappear when your account does.

Bob,

Does this mean that if I am sharing a page with someone - one of us as owner and the other as administrator - and they delete their membership, the page will be gone even if my membership stays?

Fred, as long as there is at least an admin - and I think even if there is only somebody with edit rights (not sure though) - the page stays when the user is deleted with the elves' deletion tool. Bob is right of course - if an owner deletes the page manually it doesn't help if there is an admin.

That is the case. I came across that situation recently; a picture owner had left some time ago but had given someone else edit rights, so the pictures stayed.

So I was wrong in the OP and have corrected that.

"Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off."

borutb wrote:Oops, yes, of course.But there seems to be specific deletion treatments. Some accounts are deleted and the forum posts are not deleted, and some accounts are deleted and the forum posts are deleted as well.

True. I think that is setting the elves can control. Not sure. If the forum post is the opening post, I believe the entire thread is deleted, and it appears that if the post is the last in a thread, it is deleted. Other posts generally remain unless the elves decide to delete them too, from what I can tell.

The other day, I discovered the feature that I think allows you to control whether or not posts are deleted when a user is deleted.

Anyone wanna volunteer to be the guinea pig?

Bob- You know already that these forums posts are the foundation of SP. They are what this site was built on and the glue that holds it all together. WIthout them, there would be only a shell of this great resource that we have today. This is why post count is the most, perhaps only, meaningful measure of each and every member's level of contribution here. And kudos to you for whoring it up with us often enough to approach number 4000. A great accomplishment that has not gone unnoticed by the membership. Hurray for Bob!